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Summary: Core Web Programming
Review: As a software engineer the number of books that I have to read to keep current is quite large. Core Web Programmining by Marty Hall was writen in an easy to read style that combined good text with good code examples. A reader with no knowledge of programming web pages would be able to follow and start to write their own pages very rapidly. This book is a good learning text and certainly would be an added advantage to a class room regardless of the technical knowledge of the students.
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Summary: only book that covers CGI, browser-server conversation
Review: I looked in hundreds of books until I found this one that explains how browsers and servers talk to each other. Now I can easily write programs that automate tasks that browsers do, and I can write tasks that talk to browsers. It is a FAT book. It aims to be an all in one. It needs to be rewritten to include the JDK 2 1.3 level features, but the core material still works. This book is full of information you won't find anywhere else. It has plenty of COMPLETE examples you can type and run, even if you don't fully understand them at first.
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Summary: Get a perspective view
Review: This book is written by a professor, so be prepared to carry some basic knowledge of programming esp. Java, CGI. Also, the book lacks some important recent developments in the languages. But, this book surely provides a good guideline to better web programming equiping you with ubequitous tools.
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Summary: Bullseye!
Review: This is a well-aimed book. If, like me, you are an experienced programmer who is looking to quickly learn Web programming, then this is THE book for you. It doesn't waste time with long-winded explanations of what variables are or what recursion is. It assumes you know all that stuff and quickly explains its four topics.I can't vouch for most of the HTML section, because I already knew HTML, but I didn't know CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and they are handled succinctly here in about fifty terse pages, sprinkled with very clear examples. The one exception to the "adult" level of explanation is a chapter on OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) for people new to it. 1200+ pages for $40? Quite the bargain.
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Summary: Almost everything a web site developer needs.
Review: Marty Hall's well-organized and clearly written book is like four books in one, with major sections on HTML, Java, CGI, and Java Script. His treatment of HTML and Java are more thorough than in many more specialized books. Highly recommended for the experienced professional learning about web programming!
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Summary: Good book for web programming
Review: It is a all-in-one book that contains four main parts in content, they are HTML, CGI, Java and JavaScript. I read through all of the pages. I would think that the author does a good job on HTML part. He explains this part in details from fundamental things. If you want to get more information about DHTML and XML, this book is not for you. I am happy I can read the parts of HTML, CGI and Java. However, in the part of JavaScript, it cannot give me more materials, and lack of examples. Anyway, if I can, I would give it 4.5 stars. It is a good book and worth the price.
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Summary: Cheers for Marty, exellent web programing book.
Review: I would like to congratulate Mr, Hall for his excellent work in the web programing book. I found it very usefull and supportive > in the work that I do. I am a web programer, I usually do it as a hoby. I work in the field of graphics and special effects for magazines. This book has helped me quite a bit as it has the four major codes in it. I found this book to be the best I have found so far. I have quite a collection of HTML, JAVA and CGI books that I lend to friends but this one has become a favorite of all as it's all in one book. If you din't have one, keep your eyes open for re-prints. I highly recommend CORE Web Programming.
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Summary: THE best book of many I have found on Web Programming.
Review: To Marty Hall: I have to congratulate and thank you for your impressive book, CORE Web Programming. It blows away every other book I've read on the subject. You have a keen eye for detail and consistensy. Everything is there and in the right place. It's an invaluable resourse! Many thanks for being such a darn good guy (and a real good author, too). -Shilo Couvrette 10-05-99
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Summary: Marty takes you from start to finish with this book
Review: This book is very well written, the author does a fine of defining exactly the different level of programming involved in Web developement. As a fellow developer and programmer, I would like to say this book is a must have for the WEB DEVELOPER .
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Summary: One of the most original web technology books
Review: Sutructured in an uncommon way, but covering common web programming basics, is a good book intented for people interested in establishing roots on web history. Covering HTML CSS versions of the revolution, in the startings of cross browsing era, but without that view, still, serving as a fast non-comprehensive reference of Javascript and Java, network programming, and introducing CGI and servlet programming concepts, seems not sufficient for the fast and evolutive environment of XXI century programming. This plus some social culture stablished on divorcing HTML for marrying XML, makes that, even presenting the languages as problem solver, not like mere concepts, seems to be leaving the web novel category for entering the category of classic essay, on history of web programming. But like all intended didactic books, and this one is a great representative of the category, it still remains as a starting point to view things from the basis, leaving preestablished concepts conditioned by the context of the tecnological environment at each moment, and establishing concepts that maybe useful for future learnings on this largely yet evolutive matter.
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